Video of 1993 IAL All-Star weekend
A blast from the past… I videotaped us back in 1993 during our annual All-Star Game weekend. We actually used the APBA for DOS game for league play. I had forgotten that. Thanks to Tedd for digging this up!
When a Legend Lays Down His Dice for the Last Time
When I first met Tedd some 36 years ago Tedd was hanging out in the Computer Lab at Northeastern Illinois University where I was a new student trying to figure out life. I didn’t know Tedd from Adam as the saying used to go, but Tedd immediately made me feel …
IAL Leaderboards Wrap-up
During the All-Star weekend, Tedd mentioned to me that the IAL Player Register was one year out of date. So I got on it. It’s now updated with 2010 stats. While I was doing that, I thought I do the all-time leaderboards which is a fun for me. Here is …
Roberto Alomar, No HOF’er???
NOTE: In 2010 Roberto Alomar was voted into the IAL Hall of Fame. Despite posting Hall of Fame statistics over his 17 year Illowa APBA League career with the Northside Hitmen, Roberto Alomar has failed for the second consecutive year to get the votes needed to get in, and there …
I updated the IAL all-time leaderboards
I’m finished updating the all-time records for the Illowa APBA League through the 2009 season. It’s a fun process and I’d thought I’d share some notes. Hitting By virtue of being the career leader in at-bats (by some 1000 ab), Cal Ripken finds himself on a lot of all time …
Hall of Fame Candidate: Mike Piazza
This is the fourth in a series of articles about candidates for the Illowa League Hall of Fame. Now we move on to the first player in our series who seems like a real slam-dunk first ballot Hall of Famer. Over 15 years, Mike Piazza was the best offensive catcher in …
Hall of Fame Candidate: Kenny Lofton
This is the third in a series of articles about candidates for the Illowa League Hall of Fame. It’s always difficult to predict how leadoff hitters will do in IAL Hall of Fame voting. Kenny Lofton was one of the best for about six or seven years, but like Craig Biggio …
Hall of Fame Candidate: Shawn Green
This is the second in a series of articles on candidates for the Illowa League Hall of Fame. Shawn Green played 13 seasons in the Ilowa League, splitting time between the Bunchies. He had a slow start to his career, not really breaking out and playing full-time until his fourth season, …
2010 Hall of Fame Voting
I’ve been going over the Hall of Fame for the 2010 ballot, and it looks like this year will be a good one! Eligible players for this year include, among hitters, Craig Biggio, Jose Cruz, Jr., Juan Encarnacion, Shawn Green, Kenny Lofton, Mike Piazza, and Jose Valentin. Among pitchers we …
Rock Raines Deserves His Place in the IAL HOF
I don’t know how it happened, but somehow Tim Raines is not in the IAL Hall of Fame. He is very deserving, his statistics clearly show, and it is a travesty that he is not a member. In his eighteen seasons Rock scored stole 854 bases (the all-time high) & …